Chapter 1011: The Astute Lu Zhiruo

“Great Teacher Tong, I truly wish to invite Great Teacher Sun to treat the illness of my young master. Vice Sect Lord Liang can be my witness!”

The old butler felt helpless and angry.

(When have I, the great butler of Secondary Saint Zhou’s clan, ever suffered like this before? In my life, I’ve also interacted with many high star-ranking great teachers before. Sun Mo, you better not fail to appreciate my kindness.)

“Teacher, this fellow seems to be pretty unwilling!”

Qin Yaoguang reported.

“Kids shouldn’t interrupt. Great Teacher Sun, look at my expensive gifts. Is my sincerity not enough yet?”

The old butler was so angry that he puffed out his beard and glared at Qin Yaoguang.

(If this was a slave that was under my management and she dared to interrupt like this, I would definitely smack her until her front teeth fell out.)

“Scram!”

Sun Mo couldn’t be bothered to chat more.

“Great Teacher Sun, what do you mean by this? My Zhou Clan is already giving you face and treating you politely, yet you actually d…don’t give us face?”

The old butler was annoyed too.

He actually wanted to say ‘don’t know how to appreciate favors’ but he didn’t dare to!

“The ‘politely’ you mention refers to these gifts?”

Li Ziqi coldly smiled. “If that’s the case, if I give you 100x or even 1,000x more of these valuables, can I send a servant to invite Secondary Saint Zhou to come here?”

The butler’s face immediately turned red as he roared loudly.

“I’m the great butler of the Zhou Clan and have followed my master for 40 years!”

Boss Li had been standing at the side. Upon hearing this, his lips involuntarily twitched as he silently evaluated.

“What a crafty slave!”

This was it!

Because their ego had swelled as they kept relying on their master’s might, they had forgotten that they obtained everything they currently had only due to the authority and fame of their masters.

(Do you really think that people would fear a butler like you? What people fear is that they might offend Secondary Saint Zhou if they kill you.)

(You can’t even understand this?)

Boss Li shook his head and prepared to return. He wanted to teach this lesson to his servants and get them to learn the proper etiquette.

“Shut up!” Even Tong Xugao couldn’t continue watching. “Scram!”

“The young master of my clan…”

The old butler was so angry that he coughed up blood.

“Slap yourself!”

Seeing that this fellow was still being so noisy, Tong Xugao berated again.

Boom!

Profound Words activated.

After being illuminated by the halo, the old butler’s left and right hands uncontrollably started to slap himself furiously.

Pak! Pak! Pak!

The other customers at the top level had long since been paying attention to this place. After all, someone so famous as Sun Mo was present. And now, after they saw the old butler slapping himself, everyone immediately started exchanging whispers.

The face of the old butler was flushed red. Firstly, it was from the impact of the slaps. Secondly, it was because of anger.

“Eldest Martial Sister, this crafty slave of Secondary Saint Zhou’s Clan is really impressive. He actually dares to order a 7-star great teacher. With such manners, I’m sure that the slave’s owner probably isn’t much better. It might actually be a lucky thing that you didn’t enter Secondary Saint Zhou’s tutelage.”

Qin Yaoguang felt that things weren’t chaotic enough so she intentionally said this to provoke the old butler.

Tong Xugao was mainly angry because of how the butler was treating Sun Mo. The old butler’s attitude was too arrogant and he had also interrupted his learning. This was why he chose to punish the butler.

As for the butler slighting him, Tong Xugao didn’t care about this at all.

Given his current cultivation realm, he wouldn’t feel anger over such minor matters. If not, he wouldn’t have consulted Sun Mo in public. Other high star-ranking great teachers would surely feel embarrassed to consult a lower-rank great teacher in public.

“Secondary Saint Zhou seems to be in seclusion perpetually. I think the matters of their clan now should be fully managed by his youngest son!”

Lu Zhiruo explained.

“Bring your gifts away with you and scram!”

Tong Xugao impatiently waved his hands. After that, he instructed Boss Li, “Don’t let others disturb us again.”

“Understood.”

Boss Li smiled apologetically and assured him. However, this Sun Mo was truly bold. He even didn’t want to give face to people from the Zhou Clan.

How unyielding!

“Teacher Sun, let us continue!”

Tong Xugao lifted his little notebook and looked at Sun Mo.

“Huh?”

Right now, Boss Li was closer to them than before. When he heard this term of address, he was so shocked that his eyeballs almost popped out.

Tong Xugao actually addressed Sun Mo as ‘teacher'(laoshi)?

(Did I hear wrongly?)

Although Boss Li wasn’t someone from the great teacher world, he also knew that only after a great teacher had vastly improved due to the guidance from another great teacher would the former address the latter as ‘teacher’.

“Teacher Tong, I’ve said it before. We are merely discussing things together. You don’t have to act like this.”

Sun Mo smiled bitterly.

(Ai… This Teacher Tong is really an inflexible fellow.)

“How can that be possible? It doesn’t matter who starts learning first. The one who masters the truth is the teacher. You don’t have to care about my identity!”

Tong Xugao urged. “Shall we begin?”

Tong Xugao’s eyes were filled with anticipation, like a little puppy waiting for its owner to feed it.

“Teacher is so awesome!”

Xianyu Wei felt even more worship for Sun Mo.

“That’s only natural!”

Lu Zhiruo proudly heaved her chest and placed her hands on her hips. “I’m someone who discovered our teacher’s talent when he was just a logistic staff, when he was not even an intern teacher.”

(Aiya! To think of it, I really do have an astute eye for recognizing valuable pearls. I’m really very impressive to be able to acknowledge such an awesome personal teacher so early.)

“Let us leave!”

The old butler cast a deep glare at Sun Mo before turning to leave.

…

When the old butler returned to the mansion, he was still thinking of an excuse to answer to Liang Hongda.

After all, he didn’t complete the mission successfully. But just when he returned, a servant reported to him, saying that little Master was back.

Upon hearing this, the old butler was immediately filled with joy. It was like he had found solid support. After that, he rushed toward the back area of the mansion.

Secondary Saint Zhou was already old and he was often in seclusion for the sake of trying to achieve a breakthrough to the Saint Realm.

As for the eldest Master, second Master and third Master, they had long since left the Zhou Clan and set up somewhere else. Hence, the only master remaining in the clan was the fourth Master, which everyone referred to as ‘little master’. He was the youngest son of Secondary Saint Zhou.

The old butler had been accompanying the little Master since he was young. Their relationship was definitely extraordinarily good.

After turning a corner, when the old butler saw his Little Master with Liang Hongda and the others waiting before the door, his tears immediately began to flow.

“Master!”

The old butler called out. After that, he rushed forward rapidly and knelt on the ground.

“What’s the matter?”

Zhou Xingtong was already very vexed. Now that he saw Old Gao (the butler’s name), coming back with a swollen face, he immediately grew angry. “There are people who dare to humiliate my Zhou Clan?”

After hearing this, the great teachers in the surroundings cast a glance at the old butler. They all mentally mused that he must have been beaten up because he had tried to bully Sun Mo, right?

(Speaking of which, Sun Mo’s guts are truly big! I will flash a thumbs-up for you simply based on this point.)

Actually, everyone was also annoyed with this butler. It was just that they didn’t dare to take action because of his connection with Secondary Saint Zhou.

“It is Sun Mo. I brought expensive gifts over to invite him to help out, but he actually suspects that this invitation might be a plot to harm him. Hence, he ruthlessly humiliated me.”

The old butler was still pretty smart and knew to direct the spearhead at Sun Mo and not Tong Xugao. A 7-star great teacher was considered a major character.

The butler didn’t have so much prestige that his Little Master would offend Tong Xugao for him, but in the future, the butler could slowly tell tales about Tong Xugao and speak ill of him.

“Sun Mo isn’t coming?”

Zhou Xingtong frowned.

After he received the letter sent by the old butler and learned that something had happened to his grandson, Zhou Xingtong immediately rushed over. After arriving at the mansion and not seeing the butler, he immediately asked around for the reason and knew that the butler had gone to invite Sun Mo.

“Nope, he told me to scram with my gifts!”

The old butler complained. After that, he lifted his hand and slapped himself. “I can only blame myself for bringing gifts that are too cheap.”

The great teachers all mused at how ruthless the butler was when they saw this scene.

(This must be how internal fights for power inside a clan are carried out, right?)

The old butler didn’t say that Sun Mo felt the gifts were too cheap. Instead, he blamed himself and lowered his position, becoming the weaker party. Also, he wanted to appear as a loyal old servant that was wronged by Sun Mo.

If that was the case, Sun Mo would immediately become a despicable man greedy for wealth in the eyes of those who heard it.

“I don’t know exactly how much Sun Mo’s net worth is. But for a man who could lead the Central Province Academy into the ‘B’ grade from almost being delisted, he probably wouldn’t care for such gifts, right?”

Some great teachers could no longer bear to carry on watching. “Also, his eldest disciple is a princess of the Great Tang Empire. Do you feel that he would really slight your Zhou Clan because of the gifts?”

Zhou Xingtong pondered and agreed. He then immediately looked at the old butler.

“What’s the situation exactly? Speak!”

“Truly, Sun Mo is worried we might harm him!”

The old butler complained tearfully.

And at this moment, the bedroom door opened and three doctors walked out.

Zhou Xingtong hurriedly went over. “Divine Doctor Feng, how are things?”

“Your grandson should have been poisoned!”

Divine Doctor Feng stroked his goatee and had a heavy look on his face. “But as to what poison it is, please pardon this humble me for being useless. I have no way to identify it.”

“Divine Doctor Feng, please don’t blame yourself. Identifying poisons has always been one of the most difficult things to do.”

Zhou Xingtong actually consoled Divine Doctor Feng instead.

There was no solution to it. This old fellow had a very good relationship with their Zhou Clan. He took the trouble of traveling a long distance just for the sake of treating Zhou Wenbin. This friendship was truly deep enough.

“In that case, how should we treat him?”

Liu Xu was a doctor. Now that there was a senior here, he naturally wished he could learn something new.

“We can use herbs to protect his life first and do our utmost to quickly identify the poison before we can choose the correct medicine.”

Divine Doctor Feng looked at Zhou Xingtong. “Send people to continue investigating. It would be for the best if we can catch the culprit. Next, I will need some assistants to help me with some experiments to identify the poison.”

“Is there no other solution?”

Zhou Xingtong was also a great teacher and understood that this was the most commonly used method. They might be able to save Zhou Wenbin’s life, but he would definitely be crippled.

One must know that the longer the poison was in one’s body, the greater the degree of damage the body would suffer.

Zhou Wenbin was the ‘rare horse’ of the Zhou Clan, their hope for future glory. If this horse was destroyed here, it would be too much of a pity.

Divine Doctor Feng shook his head.

“I think we better invite Sun Mo over.” A great teacher interjected, “I heard that his God Hands can dispel poison!”

Everyone immediately nodded.

Honestly speaking, nobody knew if Sun Mo could save Zhou Wenbin or not. But with Sun Mo’s current status, it wasn’t easy even if they wanted to watch him display his God Hands.

Hence, everyone didn’t want to miss this rare-to-come-by chance.

Zhou Xingtong muttered to himself irresolutely.

Truly speaking, he didn’t like Sun Mo. Sun Mo accepted Li Ziqi which his father had rejected. This was still fine, but the main point was that he actually nurtured this ‘trash’ princess into a talent and this princess actually used his own beloved grandson Zhou Wenbin as a stepping stone to shoot to fame!

“Old Zhou, it has come to this. If you want the ‘rare horse’ of your clan to survive, do you really have to care for a matter such as face?”

Liang Hongda persuaded him, “Sun Mo might be arrogant, but he has true talent and ability.”

“Alright, I’ll personally make a trip!”

Zhou Xingtong decided. He looked at the butler. “Go prepare some gifts according to the standard of a 5-star, no, a 6-star great teacher.”

“Ah?”

When the old butler heard this, he grew unhappy.

In the Zhou Clan, there was a ‘rule’ stating what sort of gifts to give to people of different ranks. How could a mere Sun Mo be worthy of gifts that were given to 6-star great teachers?

(Based on what?)

(Pui!)